[MGSA-L] FW: TONIGHT, FEBUARY 4: Greek Dance Workshop with Christos Papakostas

[Martha Klironomos]

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M. Klironomos


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From: Mary Ann Karonis [makaronis at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 9:16 AM
To: Mary Ann Karonis
Subject: TONIGHT, FEBUARY 4:  Greek Dance Workshop with Christos Papakostas

NOT TO BE MISSED. Picked-up a daouli and excitely getting ready to learn dances from Serres, Greece to the beat of the drum.

TONIGHT, February 4, Monday
Greek Dance Workshop with Christos Papakostas from Greece
7:30 to 9:30 pm
$15.00

Greek Dancing with GreekFeet
Presidio Performing Arts Center
Arguello at Moraga on the Presidio's Main Post, Building 386
Presidio, San Francisco

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BRIEF BIO

Dr. Christos Papakostas is a scholar, master dance teacher and percussionist. He was born in larisa (Thessaly). For the past 20 years, he has served as a folklorist, choreographer, dance instructor, and percussion instructor for multiple performing groups . He has undergraduate degrees in physical education and sport science with specialty in Greek traditional dance; his dissertation focused on dances of the Roma (gypsy) community of northern Greece. He has published and presented numerous studies on Greek dance, music, and folklore; has taught at multiple universities in Epirus, Thessaly and Crete; and was the author and editing supervisor for the chapter on “Traditional Greek Dance” in the physical education textbook published by the Ministry of Education for use in Greek high schools. He served as artistic director of Lykion Ellinidon Dramas (Macedonia) and in several folk dance groups in Karditsa and Larisa (Thessaly); and Komotini (Thrace). At present, he lives in Ioannina and is on the faculty of the Department of Traditional Music at the Epirus Technological Institute. He also is executive director for the Cultural Association of Perama (Epirus).

He received his PhD with Distinction from the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. His doctoral research focused on traditional Greek dances, history, archaeology, social anthropology; his thesis was on “Dance and Place: the case of a Roma community in Northern Greece.” He is returning as a judge for the second year at the "Faith-Dance-Fellowship" festival sponsored by the Greek Orthodox Church/Metropolis of San Francisco.

Christos is well known in Hellenic circles in Europe and Canada and has taught at dance seminars in Belgium, France, the U.K., and Canada. On his first U.S. teaching tour in spring 2012, he taught to much acclaim at Detroit camp, in the Midwest, and across the East Coast.